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Beth Roberts provides an overview of the challenges to women’s secure land rights, why those challenges matter in the context of agriculture, and approaches practitioners can employ to overcome them.
In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land.
On International Women’s Day, Shipra Deo explains that when it comes to land ownership, India’s culture & practices have always been discriminatory to women. But, women in tribal society are doubly disadvantaged—first as women & second as tribal women.
To mark International Human Rights Day, Landesa’s Tizai Mauto and women’s land rights & gender expert Grace Ananda explore a few of the most pernicious inequalities to surface from the COVID-19 pandemic, and a common challenge they share: insecure rights to land.
To mark International Human Rights Day, Landesa’s Tizai Mauto and women’s land rights & gender expert Grace Ananda explore a few of the most pernicious inequalities to surface from the COVID-19 pandemic, and a common challenge they share: insecure rights to land.
Despite ongoing lockdown measures, our India team has completed two major virtual trainings on women’s land rights for hundreds of government officials over the last month. By switching to remote trainings, we can continue making progress on strengthening women’s land rights and scaling reforms with our government partners across the country.
Amplio profiles Landesa’s use of Talking Books, an inclusive digital audio device, to spread awareness in rural Liberia about the new land rights policies with a focus on youth and women’s land rights.
Chief Program Officer Karol Boudreaux shares three approaches to accelerate gender equality globally by supporting women’s ability to own, manage and control important assets like land.
To mark the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on June 17, Landesa’s Beth Roberts and Shipra Deo had a conversation about the barriers women face to their land rights, and why women must be able to overcome these obstacles to make progress toward global efforts to halt desertification, conserve land, and feed the world.
Landesa Chief Program Officer Karol Boudreaux was interviewed for an article on the importance of women’s land rights in indigenous and community settings.